(Day 2, LE, Storage) It's Time to Heal

[Karlotta Roth]

"Resume breathing normally, but stay quiet still." To see if he was breathing shallowly normally was also important. So far everything was great. Such a miracle he did not get any fuck up... Yet. That she knew.

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He tried to take a deep breath and winced. "It kind of hurts."

[Karlotta Roth]

"If you try to take air to the top of your lungs, it will. There are two stitches there."

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"Oh."

He took a shallower breath. "Was it hard to fix?"

[Karlotta Roth]

"If it wasn't hurting you how you breathed before, go back to it. Just breathe normally in silent. I need to check if it's too shallow or too fast. Since you use air to talk, you also need to be silent." She explains. "And it was hard to fix, yes."

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He started to answer, and then remembered her instructions and shut up.

It sounded... not too bad, in all honesty.

[Karlotta Roth]

She typed it down on the noteputer. "You can go back to talking now."

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"Oh ok."

He went silent again.

Maybe he didn't have anything to say?

[Karlotta Roth]

Strange.
She continued to work in silence. Watching how much his chest went up and down, especially at the part with the cotton and the tape... Wait, that's still there?
"You can remove this already." She said, taking it out before he could reply. "It was for a needle hole."
Then she realized.
"Did you take a bath today?"

She took his hand, looking if his fingertips were more purple than they should be from lack of air or blood.

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"What, I didn't know... I mean, do I stink?"

He sounded very self conscious, embarrassed.